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An overview of the Cray-2 system, including its capability and performance, is provided. The Cray-2 consists of 4 background processors and a foreground processor for I/O. An extremely large multibank memory is a key feature, as is the cooling technology. The operating system is based on Unix System. V*. The Cray-2 may be considered as the new standard in supercomputing because of its unprecedentedly large main memory and its Unix operating system.
Unix is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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Perrenod, S.C. (1986). The Cray-2: The New Standard in Supercomputing. In: Kuwahara, K., Mendez, R., Orszag, S.A. (eds) Supercomputers and Fluid Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82908-6_16
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